Literary studies: plays and playwrights

This is Volume V out of eleven that form a collection on India, its History, Economy and Society.

The first collection of plays from Olivier-nominated playwright Isley Lynn, whose award-winning work uplifts their deeply human characters through stories that are unexpected, radically intimate, and profoundly theatrical.

First Published in 1999.

First Published in 1999.

This is Volume VI in the selected works of Frances Yates, providing a new approach to Shakespeare's last plays.

This is Volume VI in the selected works of Frances Yates, providing a new approach to Shakespeare's last plays.

This anthology consists of ten plays from countries involved in the First World War, including plays from Germany and France never before available in translation.

This anthology consists of ten plays from countries involved in the First World War, including plays from Germany and France never before available in translation.

First Published in 1966.

First Published in 1966.

Published in the year 1964, On Hamlet is a valuable contribution to the field of Performance.

Published in the year 1964, On Hamlet is a valuable contribution to the field of Performance.

First available in 1886, the present volume is an attempt to lessen the obscurity of that tract of international literature in which Barclay's Ship of Fools, Marlowe's Faustus, and Decker's Gul's Horn-booke are luminous but 'isolated points'.

First available in 1886, the present volume is an attempt to lessen the obscurity of that tract of international literature in which Barclay's Ship of Fools, Marlowe's Faustus, and Decker's Gul's Horn-booke are luminous but 'isolated points'.

First published in 1970.

First published in 1970.

First published in 1971.

First published in 1971.

This book considers the hundred years of re-writes of Anton Chekhov's work, presenting a wide geographical landscape of Chekhovian influences in drama.

This book considers the hundred years of re-writes of Anton Chekhov's work, presenting a wide geographical landscape of Chekhovian influences in drama.

This is Volume VI of nine in collection on Historical Sociology.

This is Volume VI of nine in collection on Historical Sociology.

This set comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors.

This set comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors.

This collection of contemporary postcolonial plays demonstrates the extraordinary vitality of a body of work that is currently influencing the shape of contemporary world theatre.

This collection of contemporary postcolonial plays demonstrates the extraordinary vitality of a body of work that is currently influencing the shape of contemporary world theatre.

In this engaging cross-disciplinary study, Timothy Murray examines the artistic struggle over traumatic fantasies of race, gender, sexuality, and power.

In this engaging cross-disciplinary study, Timothy Murray examines the artistic struggle over traumatic fantasies of race, gender, sexuality, and power.

Feminist criticism has come a long way in the last twenty years.

Feminist criticism has come a long way in the last twenty years.

Giordano Bruno's visit to Elizabethan England in the 1580s left its imprint on many fields of contemporary culture, ranging from the newly-developing science, the philosophy of knowledge and language, to the extraordinary flowering of Elizabethan poetry and drama.

Giordano Bruno's visit to Elizabethan England in the 1580s left its imprint on many fields of contemporary culture, ranging from the newly-developing science, the philosophy of knowledge and language, to the extraordinary flowering of Elizabethan poetry and drama.

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature.

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature.

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature.

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature.

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature.

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature.

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade.

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade.

This book defines and exemplifies a major genre of modern dramatic writing, termed historiographic metatheatre, in which self-reflexive engagements with the traditions and forms of dramatic art illuminate historical themes and aid in the representation of historical events and, in doing so, formulates a genre.

This book defines and exemplifies a major genre of modern dramatic writing, termed historiographic metatheatre, in which self-reflexive engagements with the traditions and forms of dramatic art illuminate historical themes and aid in the representation of historical events and, in doing so, formulates a genre.

In this trenchant work, Susan Bennett examines the authority of the past in modern cultural experience and the parameters for the reproduction of the plays.

In this trenchant work, Susan Bennett examines the authority of the past in modern cultural experience and the parameters for the reproduction of the plays.

Reviews of the First Edition`.

Reviews of the First Edition`.

In The Death of the Actor Martin Buzacott launches an all-out attack on contemporary theatrical practice and performance theory which identifies the actor, rather than the director, as the key creative force in the performance of Shakespeare.

In The Death of the Actor Martin Buzacott launches an all-out attack on contemporary theatrical practice and performance theory which identifies the actor, rather than the director, as the key creative force in the performance of Shakespeare.